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Monthly Archives: June 2008

Armed with $25 million to help provide legal services to low-income people, leaders in Albany agreed to legislation to deal with the sub-prime lending problems in New York. A deal announced by Gov. David Paterson, Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver at a press conference would make sure borrowers threatened with […] More »

According to a poll paid for by the campaign of Republican Sen. Serphin Maltese (SD-15), who is being targeted by Democrats in the fight for the Senate majority this fall, Maltese is in a “better than expected position to win re-election”. John McLaughlin & Associates, a GOP strategy and polling firm, is working for Maltese […] More »

According to a poll paid for by the campaign of Republican Sen. Serphin Maltese (SD-15), who is being targeted by Democrats in the fight for the Senate majority this fall, Maltese is in a “better than expected position to win re-election”. John McLaughlin & Associates, a GOP strategy and polling firm, is working for Maltese […] More »

The Attorney General’s office is filing a suit today against the U.S. Department of Interior for granting the Oneida Indian Nation 13,000 acres in central New York as tax-free tribal territory. The tribe was granted the acreage after applying for a much grander amount of land to be placed into trust. The suit on behalf […] More »

The truckers’ rally against higher fuel and toll prices is well under way downtown, creating a traffic headache and, if you’re close to it, a literal one, too. Hundreds of trucks, cars and motorcycles, have begun converging on the Capitol and the streets around it. Police have blocked off many of streets around Empire State […] More »

The truckers’ rally against higher fuel and toll prices is well under way downtown, creating a traffic headache and, if you’re close to it, a literal one, too. Hundreds of trucks, cars and motorcycles, have begun converging on the Capitol and the streets around it. Police have blocked off many of streets around Empire State […] More »

The Assembly had a long day on Wednesday, thanks to almost three hours of debate on an oil tax bill and a canned hunting ban that Republicans questioned sharply. Today, the second to last scheduled day of the session, should be shorter since the Democratic Assembly Campaign Committee has a 7 p.m. fund-raiser in Manhattan at the Millenium hotel […] More »

Photo: Sadaf Khatri, an organizer for NYIDA, the coalition advocating for IDA reform, dons a bib and passes out baby food to call for legislators to “stop babying big business”. In the final days of the legislative session, unions and advocates are pushing hard for Industrial Development Agencies (IDA) reform. A poll commissioned by Local […] More »

Good morning, everyone. Here are today’s stories. They may not have reached a tax cap agreement, and they’re still struggling to overhaul economic development programs and provide foreclosure relief to subprime borrowers, but lawmakers and Gov. David Paterson have reached some agreements in the waning days of the legislative session. More than 100 bills being […] More »

Windfall oil tax in New York? It’s not sure this will get past the Senate — there’s not even a companion bill — but it’s being debated right now in the Assembly. Republican lawmakers are offering some heavy and rather extensive questioning as part of some Democrats are saying is akin to a filibuster ( […] More »

While much of the press conference that Gov. David Paterson and legislative leaders just held centered on the accomplishments they’ve had so far this year, including net metering, limiting nurses overtime and protecting students from sex-offending teachers, one of Paterson’s heretofore obscure administrative moves also came up — an order that juvenile detention centers offer bras […] More »

The legislative leaders met this afternoon and just announced the issues they’ve accomplished so far. They’ve come to consensus on three issues, none of which hit the big hot-button issues of this year. And they are… Prohibiting mandatory overtime for nurses, but to go into effect a year from now. This is a win for […] More »

An anti-death penalty group is blasting Senate Republicans for voting today to reinstate the death penalty in New York even though a number of them have polls on their own Web sites showing most repondents oppose the move. New Yorkers Against the Death Penalty said Republicans “cynically voted to reinstate the death penalty” knowing the […] More »

An anti-death penalty group is blasting Senate Republicans for voting today to reinstate the death penalty in New York even though a number of them have polls on their own Web sites showing most repondents oppose the move. New Yorkers Against the Death Penalty said Republicans “cynically voted to reinstate the death penalty” knowing the […] More »

The governor’s office put out a fresh round of plans by 16 more agencies on how they’ll comply with his directive to trim spending by 3.35 percent. Here’s the link. The agencies include: Council on the Arts, Civil Service; Consumer Protection Board; Board of Elections; Environmental Conservation; State Education Department; Governor’s Office of Employee Relations; […] More »

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